CQ on Congress

Congress cleared most
pressing issues off its decks by striking a budget deal and passing
a huge tax and spending package at the end of 2015. The question is
whether the House and Senate in 2016 will amplify election year
messaging or whether lawmakers and the White House come together to
strike deals on other...

CQ Now introduces you
to a very special piece of American history at the Library of
Congress:the Bay Psalm Book, printed in 1640 in the Massachusetts
Bay Colony. It is the first book printed in what is now the United
States and it helped shape everything from religious expression to
the political culture in the 13...

A tumultuous and unusually productive year for
Congress ended quietly on Dec. 18 with the passage of a $1.1
trillion spending bill to keep the government running and a package
of tax breaks for businesses and individuals worth about $680
billion. Everyone in Washington had some flesh in the game,
and the hundreds of...

The 457-mile rail route from Washington to Boston is the busiest
in the country, connecting four of the nation's 10 largest
metropolitan areas and serving about a fifth of the U.S. economy.
It's also the most bureaucratically tangled, with eight commuter
lines, four freight railroads and Amtrak all sharing the...

A House bill that would require warrants for
government access to personal and business emails attracted more
than 300 co-sponsors as well as support from technology giants like
Google. But the measure has stalled over concerns from law
enforcement and federal agencies that want exceptions to the
requirement.